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Nearly 30 years later, that question still fuels everything we do at Intuitive. As a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery and minimally invasive care, our technologies-like the da Vinci surgical system and Ion -have transformed how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide.\nWe’re a team of engineers, clinicians, and innovators united by one purpose: to make surgery smarter, safer, and more human. Every day, our work helps care teams perform with greater precision and patients recover faster, improving outcomes around the world.\nThe problems we solve demand creativity, rigor, and collaboration. The work is challenging, but deeply meaningful-because every improvement we make has the potential to change a life.\nIf you’re ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare, you’ll find your purpose here.\n Interaction Design is a key role at Intuitive, spanning multiple technical disciplines to craft user-friendly experiences for complex medical devices. We bring human-centered design to healthcare innovation and to the development of safe, effective, and confidence-inspiring robotic interfaces.\nAs a Senior Interaction Designer on the da Vinci team, you will drive design work and product innovation for da Vinci’s multiport and single port systems. You will be involved in all stages of product development from early concepting to final design and implementation, collaborating closely with other designers, Human Factors, engineers, product managers, and clinical experts.\nThis full-time on-site position is based in our Sunnyvale, CA office.\nWhat You'll Bring\nYou are a human-centered designer motivated by the opportunity to improve the life of patients and tackle novel challenges in healthcare\nYou thrive in highly technical domains, enjoying abstract and often unfamiliar design problems\nYou are comfortable designing for intelligent and semi-autonomous systems, with an understanding of how interfaces communicate system intent, state, confidence, limitations, and next actions to support safe and effective human oversight.\nYou are methodical and drive design decisions through insights and iteration\nYou value design craftsmanship, recognize quality, and expect high standards\nYou believe in collaboration, knowing that success hinges on working closely with other designers and cross-functional partners\nYou are emotionally intelligent and have excellent listening, communication and analytical skills that help you to adapt in a dynamic, cross-functional environment\nWhat You’ll Do\nDesign world-class physical and digital interfaces, upholding superior design standards and methods to deliver product experiences that push the frontier of human-computer interaction.\nDefine the behavior of interactive and intelligent systems, driven by evidence and deep problem understanding. Design macro and micro interactions that communicate system capabilities, state, intent, confidence, and limitations, enabling users to effectively understand, supervise, and collaborate with increasingly sophisticated system behaviors while exploring, prototyping, and iterating through solutions to systematically narrow the solution space.\nDeliver design solutions that are desirable, feasible and viable, proposing and articulating clear and compelling design solutions with sound rationales. You will take part in evolving the product’s design language to produce beautiful and functional interfaces.\nContribute to design documentation and testing, writing clear, comprehensive and detailed user interface specifications for others to build and test against. Consider potential safety and usability risks together with our Human Factors Engineers and design necessary mitigations.\n Required Skills and Experience\n5+ years of product design or related field experience (in-house, agency, or freelance work)\nExpertise in physical or embedded interaction design (beyond web or mobile app interfaces)\nProficiency in current design tools and software applications\nRequired Education and Training\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors, or equivalent\nPreferred Skills and Experience\nDemonstrated expertise across the full design lifecycle, from concept generation and experience definition to detailed interaction design, visual design, motion design, prototyping, and final implementation.\nExperience designing for 3D, spatial, or AR/VR interactions.\nDemonstrated systems thinking and experience designing scalable interaction frameworks across products, workflows, and user journeys.\nExperience designing for complex, intelligent, or highly automated systems where users interact with, supervise, or direct sophisticated system behaviors.\nAbility to design clear system feedback, controls, and interaction models that help users understand system state, intent, capabilities, and limitations.\nAbility to articulate design rationale clearly to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.\nDemonstrated success bringing products with complex user interactions to market.\n Due to the nature of our business and the role, please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19. Details can vary by role.\nIntuitive is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees, and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, without regard to race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, genetic information or any other status protected under federal, state, or local applicable laws.\nMandatory Notices\nU.S. Export Controls Disclaimer: In accordance with the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (15 CFR §743.13(b)), some roles at Intuitive Surgical may be subject to U.S. export controls for prospective employees who are nationals from countries currently on embargo or sanctions status.\nCertain information you provide as part of the application will be used for purposes of determining whether Intuitive Surgical will need to (i) obtain an export license from the U.S. Government on your behalf (note: the government’s licensing process can take 3 to 6+ months) or (ii) implement a Technology Control Plan (“TCP”) (note: typically adds 2 weeks to the hiring process).\nFor any Intuitive role subject to export controls, final offers are contingent upon obtaining an approved export license and/or an executed TCP prior to the prospective employee’s start date, which may or may not be flexible, and within a timeframe that does not unreasonably impede the hiring need. If applicable, candidates will be notified and instructed on any requirements for these purposes.\nWe will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.\nPreference will be given to qualified candidates who do not reside, or plan to reside, in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, or Tennessee.\nThis position may be filled at a different job level than listed here depending on\nbusiness need and/or on the selected candidate’s experience, knowledge and skills.\nCompensation will be based primarily on the job level at which the role is filled and the\ncandidate’s qualifications, consistent with applicable law.\nWe provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity. 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